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By Anthony Burke

Uranium, the main atomically risky common point on the earth, has a different position within the international geopolitics of assets. It presents power to hundreds of thousands of individuals and its isotopes are used to energy spacecraft and in nuclear drugs. however it can be on the center of a number of the planet's most threatening threats, together with nuclear devastation and radioactive waste. Its mining has prompted sour clash with indigenous peoples and its checking out in nuclear guns has left a poisonous legacy. but the nonproliferation regime which goals to part out nuclear guns and deal with the dangers of nuclear strength is liable to unravelling.

during this booklet, Anthony Burke explores the geopolitical intrigue round uranium and the dilemmas of justice and defense to which its improvement has given upward push. The twenty-first century, he cautions, should be a time of reckoning and new reserves of political will needs to be stumbled on to control the effect of this notable mineral. merely by way of cooperating to accomplish multilateral disarmament and bigger foreign keep watch over over nuclear energy will we thrust back nuclear disaster and harness the opportunity of nuclear strength to aid deal with, instead of create, many of the world's such a lot urgent problems.

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